Red Wings forward Justin Abdelkader and the rest of the Detroit contingent need to get their sticks on the ice if they're going to make the NHL playoffs this season.

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If the Detroit Red Wings are going to keep their record 21-year steak of making the postseason intact, they've got some winning to do this week in their final four games of this lockout-shortened, 48-game National Hockey League regular season.

Late Saturday, the Red Wings climbed closer to the playoff picture, but not back into it after falling 2-1 in a shootout at the host Vancouver Canucks.

Pavel Datsyuk, Henrik Zetterberg and Damien Brunner all came up short in the shootout duel against the Canucks at Rogers Arena, leaving the Wings with one out of a possible two points and still chasing that ...